Content overview: It doesn’t matter if you lose your head, as long as you believe in the absolute truth of communism. Kill me, Xia Minghan, and thousands of future generations will continue to fight for communism!
Poem of sacrifice
Author Xia Minghan? Modern dynasties
Beheading does not matter, as long as the principle is true.
Kill Xia Minghan and the people who came after him.
In 1928, Xia Minghan was arrested in Hankou for being betrayed by a traitor. He was killed by the reactionary military police because he refused to surrender. He was only 28 years old.
On his deathbed, Xia Minghan wrote a famous martyrdom poem, which showed the awe-inspiring and heroic martyrdom of the Communists:
“Beheading does not matter, as long as the doctrine is true. Kill Xia Minghan and the people who came after him!"
The poet Xiao San recalled: "Comrade Xia Minghan has a pure party spirit, no tricks, no lies, no lies about his character and temper. , the four lines of the poem can fully represent it. It is true and not pretentious. What is rare is that his words and deeds are consistent." Zigui County, Hubei Province, and returned to Hengyang with his family when he was 12 years old.
In the spring of 1917, Xia Minghan entered the first class of the Mechanical Department of the Hunan Provincial Third Class A Industrial School. Driven by some progressive teachers and classmates, he joined the "Shazi Society", a patriotic academic organization in Hengyang, and launched a struggle against the Beiyang warlords.
Xia Minghan’s family is very prestigious in Hengyang. In 1918, the warlord Wu Peifu captured Hengyang, Hunan. After he heard about the prestige of the Xia family in the local area, he had a calligraphy screen written with the eight characters "Degai Hengyue, famous throughout Hunan" and went there in person. Xia family visits. Xia Minghan hated Wu Peifu's warlord behavior very much, so he tore up all the character screens he gave him in front of Wu Peifu.
In 1919, the "May Fourth" movement emerged. Xia Minghan, together with progressive students from various schools, went to society to carry out patriotic publicity activities, and united people from all walks of life to send calls across the country to support the struggle of Beijing students. Xia Minghan also led a troupe of speakers to various units to give speeches. Often, "the speaker burst into tears, and the listeners covered their faces and cried."
In 1921, the Communist Party of China was established. Later, after being introduced by Mao Zedong and He Shuheng, Xia Minghan joined the Communist Party of China.
In January 1922, the leader of the Hunan labor movement was killed by the Zhao Hengti government. Xia Minghan launched a demonstration by people from all walks of life in Hunan. However, the Zhao Hengti government believed that Xia Minghan's actions were harmful to public security and banned him. Xia Minghan and others had no choice but to work underground.
In June 1927, Xia Minghan was transferred back to work in Hunan and served as member of the Provincial Party Committee and Minister of Organization. After the Party's "August 7th" meeting, Mao Zedong returned to Changsha and discussed the Autumn Harvest Uprising plan with the Hunan Provincial Party Committee. According to the plan, Xia Minghan publicized and organized the Autumn Harvest Uprising to party organizations at all levels.
He encouraged his younger siblings to join the armed struggle. With the consent of the organization, his seventh brother Xia Mingbi was sent to Hengyang, his fifth brother Xia Mingzhen was sent to Chenzhou, and his fourth sister Xia Mingheng was sent to Hengshan to organize an armed uprising. Later, they all died in the uprising.
After the Autumn Harvest Rebel Army's plan to attack Changsha was frustrated, Xia Minghan continued to stay in Hunan, Hubei and other places to coordinate the activities of the Rebel Army.
At the beginning of 1928, the Party Central Committee transferred Xia Minghan to work for the Hubei Provincial Party Committee. At this time, the Party Central Committee in Shanghai sent Li Weihan to Wuhan to discuss with Xia Minghan and Guo Liang and decide to cancel the two-Hunan New Year's Eve riots and stop this Act blindly regardless of the situation between ourselves and the enemy.
After the Lantern Festival, Xia Minghan learned that traffic officer Song Ruolin was unreliable, so he returned to the hotel to prepare for transfer. At this time, the traitor Song Ruolin rushed in with the enemy police and arrested Xia Minghan.
The enemy used all kinds of torture, but Xia Minghan would rather die than surrender. Two days later, in the early morning of March 20, Xia Minghan was taken to the execution ground.
Before his execution, the enemy asked him: "Is there anything else to say?" .Kill Xia Minghan, and those who come after you!" the proletarian war hymn, and then die calmly.
In 2009, Xia Minghan was selected as one of the "100 Heroic Model Figures Who Made Outstanding Contributions to the Founding of New China".
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Anecdotes and allusions
Rebel Grandfather
Both Xia Minghan's grandfather and father were government officials in the Qing Dynasty. When he was a boy, Xia Minghan did not regard himself as the "young master of the Xia family". In 1917, against his grandfather's wishes, Xia Minghan was admitted to the mechanical department of the provincial third-grade industrial school. In April 1918, Wu Peifu captured Hengyang City. During this period, Xia Minghan angrily wrote a poem to accompany the satirical painting: "A big eye is good at observing the wind and colors, a broad mouth is good at flattering horses and bragging, long hands can make more fame and fortune, and a short stature is good at bending the knees and kowtow."
Because Xia Minghan Wu Peifu's family is a big family in the local area, so Wu Peifu went to Xia Mansion to visit Xia Shiji with the words "Degai Hengyue, famous throughout Xiang", with the intention of winning over him. After Xia Minghan learned about it, he immediately rushed into the hall, tore the screen into pieces and scattered them all over the floor.
Tried in prison
In March 1928, Xia Minghan was arrested in Wuhan. After being imprisoned he underwent several trials.
The presiding officer asked: "What is your surname?"
Xia Minghan replied: "Your surname is Dong.
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"Your surname is obviously Xia, why did you say your surname is Dong! What nonsense! "
"I spoke according to the logic of the Kuomintang. Your logic confuses right and wrong. You describe killing as mercy and betrayal as patriotism. I also used your logic and changed the surname ‘Xia’ to ‘Dong’. This is called fighting fire with fire. "The presiding officer asked a few more questions, but couldn't ask anything. In the end, he could only announce "execution on the spot."
Suicide note
In prison, Xia Minghan knew that his life was about to end. At the end, I endured the pain and wrote three letters to my mother, wife, and eldest sister with half a pencil.
The suicide note to my mother said: "You nurtured my childhood with a loving mother's heart. It opened up my heart with excellent classical poetry. Grandpa scolded me and locked me up, and the reactionaries tortured me in every possible way. Dear mother, you have never been in tune with them. You only teach your children to eliminate harm for the people and eliminate evil for the country.
At the critical moment when my brothers and sisters and I joined the revolution, you gave us spiritual care and material support. Dear mother, don’t be sad, don’t cry, don’t let Zigui cry and be blinded by blood, don’t send your child to another room with tears. The children will not see their mother's hair white, but I believe you will see the red flag we raised flying in the blue sky of the motherland! "
The letter to his wife Zheng Jiajun wrote: "Comrades once said that only Jiajun is good in the world, but today I think you are a virtuous woman. I have no worries, no tears, and no selfless thoughts in my life. You must not be sad and tearful. Looking around, in this world, how many couples have been together for hundreds of years? Throwing heads and spilling blood, Minghan has long regarded it as nothing.
'Everyone gets what he needs' One day, the revolutionary cause will be passed down from generation to generation.
Hongzhu is still there to miss her, Chiyun (Xia Yun, Xia Minghan's daughter), an orphan, hopes to be fulfilled, adheres to the revolution and inherits my ambition, and vows to pass on the truth to the world! ”
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